Real Live Boyfriends
- Published
- 1 January 2010
- Pages
- 224
- ISBN-13
- 9780385734288
- Type
- novel
About this book
Lockhart closed the quartet in 2010 with Real Live Boyfriends, 224 pages, the year immediately following The Treasure Map of Boys. It completes Ruby's slow rebuilding of her own sense of self across her high school years, closing out a quartet often cited alongside The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks as Lockhart's defining early work.
Key facts about Real Live Boyfriends
E. Lockhart wrote Real Live Boyfriends, a novel on our list. It has been out since 2010. The book has 224 pages.
We list 1 edition of this novel. Since each edition has its own ISBN, search for 9780385734288 to find the main one.
Real Live Boyfriends is book 4 of 4 in the Ruby Oliver Quartet series. The series has 4 published books. However, the series starts with The Boyfriend List (2005).
Additionally, E. Lockhart writes We Were Liars as a separate series. Those series sit on our young adult shelf. Meanwhile, The Pools is the latest published E. Lockhart book on file, from 6 October 2026.
About E. Lockhart
E. Lockhart is the pen name of Emily Jenkins (born 1967), an American author best known for young adult fiction, including the bestselling We Were Liars series. Lockhart's breakout early work, the Ruby Oliver Quartet (2005-2010) and The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks (2008), established her voice for wry, socially sharp contemporary YA before We Were Liars (2014) shifted her into psychological suspense and became a word-of-mouth bestseller. See every E. Lockhart book in order.
Its place in Ruby Oliver Quartet
Real Live Boyfriends is book 4 in the Ruby Oliver Quartet series. It follows The Treasure Map of Boys. See the full Ruby Oliver Quartet reading order.
The Ruby Oliver Quartet follows Ruby Oliver, a Seattle teenager navigating panic attacks, a fractured friend group, and a running list of the fifteen boys she's ever had feelings about -- the literal boyfriend list that opens the series and gives the first book its title. Told in Ruby's wry, list-making, footnote-heavy first-person voice, the four novels track her through the social fallout of a breakup that costs her most of her friends, several rounds of not-quite-relationships, and a slow rebuilding of her own…
Editions
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9780385734288